[Gllug] Advertising the next GLLUG meeting in Universities and Colleges

[Caroline Ford]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:26 +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, - Tethys wrote:
> 
> > > Free when capitalised may and, given context, should be a reference to it
> > > being Free Software.
> > 
> > The reference will be completely lost on the target audience, and so
> > shouldn't be used. I agree, they could do with educating about it. But
> > merely using a capital F will not do that, and just makes it look
> > unprofessional.
> 
> The point of capitalisation is to specifically use an established 
> description - Free Software. To use the lower case leads to confusion with 
> free as in monetary consideration or lack thereof.
> 
> > Also, "Linux [...] has all of the applications you need". s/all/most/
> 
> Depends upon who you're talking about ;)
Free defaults to no money to the general public. Capitalisation just
looks like you are highlighting the cheapness of it.

Caroline

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